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NOW WOULD BE A GREAT TIME TO SAVE RSN - We’ve taken quite a beating on funding over
the past several months. Clearly it is taking it’s toll. RSN is here and strong, but it is and has always been dependent on a basic operating budget. That’s fallen off sharply in recent months. The situation is bad. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News
Charles Pierce | I'm Not Sure We're Ready for the Chaos That Will Follow the Midterms
 Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "Over the weekend, there were a couple of ominous, if overlooked, statements from Republican officials touching on the upcoming midterm elections." READ MORE  Michael Cohen. (photo: Getty Images)
Emily Jane Fox | "He Is Trying to Make It Right": As the Midterms Approach, Michael Cohen Is Doubling Down on His Civic Duty
Emily Jane Fox, Vanity Fair Fox writes: "Despite having no formal cooperation agreement with the government, Cohen has willingly assisted and provided information critical to several ongoing investigations." READ MORE  Voters at a polling precinct. (photo: Getty Images)
Nate Silver | 2018 House Forecast
Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight Excerpt: "How various breakdowns in the national popular vote correspond to the most likely distributions of House seats by party, according to our forecast." READ MORE  Vietnam's government has scrapped plans to allow independent trade unions and unleashed its most severe clampdown on dissent in decades. (photo: WP)
How Trump's Decision on TPP Has Set Back Democracy in Vietnam
Simon Denyer and David Nakamura, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Vietnam had promised more workers' rights. Without the TPP, it has instead unleashed a crackdown." READ MORE  Kamala Harris (D-CA), accompanied by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), questions Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, January 16, 2018, in Washington. (photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP)
Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Lead Charge to Advance Anti-Lynching Law in Senate
Clarissa Hamlin, News One Hamlin writes: "All three of the nation's Black senators won a victory Thursday in the ongoing battle to criminalize lynching-related offenses for the first time in American history." READ MORE  'The way the war is waged has systematically choked civilians by making less food available and affordable to millions of people.' (photo: Abdullkareem Alayashy)
Civilians in Yemen Are Not Starving, They Are Being Starved
Jan Egeland, Norwegian Refugee Council Egeland writes: "Let it be known that the worst famine on our watch is wholly manmade by Yemen's conflict parties and their international sponsors." READ MORE  Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise in Charlotte Bay, Antarctic peninsula. (photo: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace)
Javier Bardem | I've Seen the Antarctic's Untouched Beauty. There's Still Time to Protect It
Javier Bardem, Guardian UK Bardem writes: "This area still remains one of the least-touched regions on the planet. Right now, we have an opportunity to protect it." READ MORE |
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Charles Pierce | I'm Not Sure We're Ready for the Chaos That Will Follow the Midterms
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Charles Pierce | Trump's Comey Problem
A MUST READ!
This defines how petty and irrational Trump is. This is not leadership:
After the president fired Comey there was some uncertainty about whether Comey, as a former FBI employee, would have to pay his way home from LAX or would be able to use the director’s plane. NBC recently reported that an irate Trump called McCabe a day after the firing asking why Comey had been permitted to return to Washington on an FBI plane. McCabe indicated that he hadn’t been consulted about the use of the plane but, had anyone asked, he would have approved the request. Thanks to one of these emails, we now have a small window into what went on at the FBI at the time. On May 11, Gregory Cox, assistant director of the Critical Incident Response Group, emailed all of the Critical Incident Response Group thanking “all who were involved in efforts to bring home former Director Comey from Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.” The apparent defiance may be subtle, but it is unmistakable. Cox may not have known that his email dealt with a point the president had personally raised with the acting director, but he thanked his people for doing the right thing by Comey irrespective of politics he was surely aware of in a generic sense.
06 February 18
FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Trump's Comey Problem
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Over at Lawfareblog, they've gotten a hold of a cache of e-mails from inside the FBI from the immediate aftermath of the president*'s firing of director James Comey."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Over at Lawfareblog, they've gotten a hold of a cache of e-mails from inside the FBI from the immediate aftermath of the president*'s firing of director James Comey."
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Charles Pierce | Here's What Your President Is Doing Right Before Thanksgiving
23 November 17
FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Here's What Your President Is Doing Right Before Thanksgiving
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Temporary Protected Status is one of those programs that, by and large, takes the Statue of Liberty seriously. Undocumented people who come here fleeing either natural disasters - as was the case with the 60,000 Haitians who came here in the wake of a massive earthquake in 2010, whom the administration* now plans to send home - or internal bloodshed."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Temporary Protected Status is one of those programs that, by and large, takes the Statue of Liberty seriously. Undocumented people who come here fleeing either natural disasters - as was the case with the 60,000 Haitians who came here in the wake of a massive earthquake in 2010, whom the administration* now plans to send home - or internal bloodshed."
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Trump plans to throw 60,000 Haitians out of the country.
n the daily wrestling match within this administration* between staggering incompetence and unreasoning cruelty, the sides are generally pretty even. However, Tuesday was one of those days where the latter really came to play. From the L.A. Times:The so-called temporary protected status for Haitians will expire in 18 months, in July 2019, officials with the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday night. The unusually long lead time will give Haitians currently under protection an opportunity to seek some other kind of legal status if they qualify — or to make arrangements to leave. By far the largest group of Haitians covered by the order live in Florida, with another large community in New York. For months, administration officials have signaled their intention to end special designations that have allowed immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally from Haiti and other troubled nations to stay on and work in the U.S. The existing protections were intended to provide temporary respites for citizens of hard-hit countries, not permanent legal status in the U.S., officials note.
Temporary Protected Status is one of those programs that, by and large, takes the Statue of Liberty seriously. Undocumented people who come here fleeing either natural disasters—as was the case with the 60,000 Haitians who came here in the wake of a massive earthquake in 2010, whom the administration* now plans to send home—or internal bloodshed. There are 200,000 Salvadorans here who came after an earthquake struck that country 16 years ago. Sending them back, which this administration* will get around to doing, is sending them back to internal bloodshed and civil strife.
The Haitians—as Marco Rubio explained in a pointed op-ed in The Miami Herald—are being sent back to a devastated country that is in no way prepared to take them in.
Haitians who have been in the United States under TPS have played a significant role in rebuilding their country. Personal contributions from the Haitian community in the U.S. make up nearly 25 percent of Haiti’s gross domestic product. Many Haitians depend on the financial support from family members abroad, which amounted to $2.4 billion in 2016 and has grown steadily every year since 1998. That said, ongoing natural disasters and global health challenges like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unchecked cholera, have undermined Haiti’s ability to meet its full potential. Haitians were first struck by a cholera outbreak after United Nations (UN) peacekeepers transmitted the disease during the 2010 earthquake recovery efforts. Since then, nearly 800,000 Haitians have contracted cholera, resulting in 10,000 deaths from the disease alone.
There is no good reason to send these people back. They work. They pay every tax except the federal income tax. They contribute to their communities. But they are people of color, and the notion he'd ship as many of them out of the country as possible is what got this president* elected.
“Since the 2010 earthquake, the number of displaced people in Haiti has decreased by 97 percent,” said Duke. “Significant steps have been taken to improve the stability and quality of life for Haitian citizens, and Haiti is able to safely receive traditional levels of returned citizens.”
And once they’re gone, they’re Haiti’s problem again. Out of sight, and the administration*’s out of its mind.
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